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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 6.
COLUMBUS,' NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY. MAY 19, 1897.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,410.
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THE ACTOR'S STORY.
TRAVELING the
atrical company sat
about the stove in
the depot of a west
ern town, awaitng
a two hours late
train, to make their
next stand. Their
weekly repertory
had been presented,
and they were leav
ing with the com
fortable remembrance of six nights of
8. R.O.
The conversation had turned on the
'sameness of the stage plot, where virtue
Is Invariably rewarded and crime pun
ished. "It is aot so In real life." remarked
one. "I believe many a murder, goes
-unavenged, so far -as earthly vengeance
is concerned. Old saws are mostly old
lies, as witness. -Murder will out' -
"I-used to believe that myself," said
Warren, who played "heavies." "But I
have known of several instances where
it would seem as if the finger of Provi
dence had directly interfered, that the
Kuilty might be betrayed. Did I ever
tell you about the strangest event of
my life, which uncovered the commis
sion of a crime to me, a total stranger."
"Ugh-h-h! Now Mr. Warren is going
to tell another ghost story," shivered
the soubrette, huddling up close to the
leading lady, in anticipation of delight
ful horror.
"Yes. Warren brought a bundle of
them over from his native isle, where
superstition is thicker than the average
. bog trotter's head," sneered the juven-
, Jle, who owed Warren a grudge for crit-
, Icising his work as "missy-ish."
"I wasn't always an actor," began
Warren, In answer to the various cries
of "go on," from ail but the juvenile,
who muttered: "Were you ever one?"
"I was for four years sub-editor on
The Dally Lark, in London.
"One hot August, when I had been
unsually overworked, and one is al
ways overworked on a London daily,
luy manager gave me two weeks off.
with ten pounds above my wages, to go
for a holiday.
"Now, I might mention that holidays
were so (infrequent that I didn't know
what to do with mine when I got it.
Rut I just packed a bag and took a train
bound toward the north, and steered
.. straight for the sea. I wanted to get
into the quiet somewhere, and com-
. plctely forget the noise and hurry or
-t!ie town.
"Just by the merest drifting I fetched
up in Ycrk. at Churchstile-by-the-sca.
"Here, hidden from the rest of the
world by the hills behind it and the
sea in front, seemed the place of all the
earth where peace might be found. The
little village looked as if it might have
litin there, in the massive mounds of
" earth, for ages. Yet there was pain,
and sorrow, and sin there, as else-
. where.
- "The inn where I got lodgings was at
the'Iowcr end of the town, and com
manded a full view cf the water. For a
.fc.v days I did nothing but lounge
about en the rocks and watch the dif
ferent phases and expressions that a
large bodv cf water can take on. You
A CURDLING SHRIEK.
sec, I had never seen more than enough
water to bathe in. except in the dirty
Thames, and I could lie for hours at a
time and watch the waves roll in and
break up on the sand.
"The principal street of the village
' extended all the way through, from the
inn at one end to the old church on the
hill at the ether, and from there went
on and lost itself in the many ins and
, cuts of the high lands. In one of my
rambles I had examined the old church
which had given the village its name,
and spent hours in its grass grown
burying ground, studying its quaint
old gravestones. It was a massive
structure of stone, and had been buiit,
so I learned from a Latin inscription
lot into the main part of the building,
in 1570, w hen there was a rising in the
north against Elizabeth, and in favor
of the old, the Catholic, religion.
"This probably accounted for its
being fortified on three sides by a moat,
b.ng since fallen into disuse.
"Connected by a stone bridge across
t the old moat was the estate called
'Hethergladc.'with the old manor house
several hundred feet back, and hidden
by many trees. This house was built
seme years after the church, but they
were of the same estate.
"My landlord informed me that the
present lord and owner was Jasper
Sayman, a crusty old miser, who lived
in the great house all alone, save for
his housekeeper, and one old man, who
was gardener, butler, footman and
coachman all in one. I had seen the
lord, driving through the long village
. street in a high old cabriolet, of the
French Empire days, with the many
functioned servant on the box. As he
peered put of the windows I thought
him as disagreeable a looking old vil
lain as ever I laid my eyes on. with his
nigh crooked nose and the strangest,
most piercing eyes, that searched you
out from a pair of bushy eyebrows.
"With my usual nose for scenting a
story, I immediately set this man down
as one who could furnish 'material,
and meant seme time to 'work' him.
"One evening I sat in Tny little room
at the inn. smoking and watching the
piled up clouds thatliung over the hor
izon, betokening a coming storm. The
night was warm and sultry, and the sea
perfectly calm, and -as the storm would
yj-afcaMy be hours coming up, I stepped
life
f tv, 7S3l
out of the window, and set out up the
hill' for a stroll. "
"I walked on. not thinking of any
definite place, and presently found my
self at the old church, and at the same
moment smelt the odor of a pipe. Then
I saw. sitting in the shadow of one of
the pillars, a figure, which the light of
the moon in the first quarter scarcely
revealed.
" 'It's just mee, sor, Old Roger, from
the 'Glades, cross the way,' said a cor
dial voice.
"I often come here to smoke and
think. There is so much work over
yonder that a man has no time to think,
an' I'm gettin' a bit old, now, sir.
'"You'll be the gentleman that Is
stoppin' at Sawyer's, in the village. I
knowed yo by your smokin a segyar,
sor. Churchstile smokes a pipe.
Thamk'ye, I'll try It, though I'm some
afeard of 'em; but to be social, sor, I'll
try if
A few adroit quesUonsset him toJcida. .beat, and
'talkTng"about "himself, his masterraTW
the old days at Hetherglade.
"Master is a strange man, and a
bit set, but I speak my mind to 'um
often, an' he1 tells me to leave, but
I've served too long as man and boy
to turn out at my age. I got as good
a right to stay as he, an' I tell him so.
I'm none afeard o' him, for all his
glowerin' at me with his strange eyes.
" 'Ever since the demon of death car
ried away the souls of the two young
masters he's been lord o' the place bis
self, an' that were thirty years ago.
Aye, .a black and sad day, and here in
this very church it were, and not a
man, woman nor child but me, sor,
and now and then a visitor, has put
foot into it since. The simple folk are
afraid of the 'hants,' but I know that
there would be no ghosts but of my
dear young masters, an' I'd be cone
afeard o' them.'
The old man, flattered apparently by
an appreciative listener, puffed labor
iously at his cigar, and continued:
" 'There were two masters o Hether
glade, and o' the church, for it was
never owned by the village, but were
built over three hundred year ago by
a Sayman o' them times, and held by
their heirs ever since. Two kinder
nor better hearted lads never lived
than them, twins they were, an as
near alike as two peas. Tall, with
flaxen curls that always marked the
Saymans, until this one. Their father,
who had ministered at this church for
two score of years, were that proud of
them it were sinful. One werev a
preacher and one were a player, and
such music as come out o that old or
gan! It was like the heavenly choir.
"Well, the old minister died, leav
in' everything to his two sons, an' if.
both o them died without heirs, to
his brother in India, this same Jasper
Sayman. An' it were down in the will
that the one should preach and the
other play so long as they lived, in the
old church here.
"Well, looked like the old man
knowed somethin were up. for he
turned up at the readin o the will an
were sore angry at the conditions, for
he said he were fifty then, an liable
to be an old man, an poor. He's nigh
onto a hundred now, sor. though you
mightn't think it. But the two bairns
made him bide with them, an told him
he should be their care so long as they
lived.
"It were two years after the old
lord's dcath.I was sexton o this church
always, that were before I were gar
dener, cook and footman, all rolled In
to one,' he added in parenthetical dis
gust. " An' I went up one morning to tidy
up a bit. The two lads spent much o
their time here, one writin' of his ser
mons, in the library o the church, an'
the other makin music that took your
censes away, for the wonder of it
" 'When I opened the door that morn
it seemed to me that the air was wrong.
It were black with the shadow sin, I
found in a minute, an' filled with the
very smell of hell.
" 'Just in front of the altar, to the
right of the organ, was the young
preacher, lyin dead, wi a knife in his
heart, his hand graspin' the hilt o't, as
if he bad put it there hisseif. The
other was sittin' at the organ, lcanin
forward, his head sunk down, an' the
music crumpled up in his arms, which
were lyin on the keys. He were dead,
too, dead, as he were a playin the
'Lost Chord.' they said. There were
an ugly knife wound in his neck, to
the heart.
"I did not know whether I was dead
or alive, but I screamed so that the
uncle, an' soon the whole village came.
" 'In the inquest it was allowed that
one had killed the other, then himself;
but there were always some who
doubted, though there was nothing to
prove contrary.
" 'The uncle came in for the estate,
an' has lived close and stingy the years
since.
"'I'm an old man, sor, an' I'll not
have to wait long to find out the truth.
No, I never 'spicioned nobody, but I
think they never done so black a deed,
neither one of them.'
"I had listened to the old man's story
so intently that I forgot the lateness of
of the hour and the storm that had
threatened, until a loud thunder clap,
right over our head, recalled me. We
looked up to find that the dense clouds
had gathered thick, and already big
drops were beating down on us. We
l)oth stepped inside the church door
for shelter, as the storm burst in real
fury and lashed 'itself in an uproar
that deafened our ears.
"Presently there was a lull, and we
were terrified to hear a sound of wail
ing music come from the organ in the
rear of the church. We strained our
ears in the darkness, then from out
the shadow the music changed into the
strains of the 'Lost Chord,' as played
by a master hand. It was soft and
low at first, rising gradually until it
seemed as if it would burst the walls
with power. Then there came another
thunder burst, that appeared an after
thought of the storm .and rent the heav
ens apart and sent the pale rays of the
young moon through 'the window, and
at the same instant a supernatural
glow lit up the chancel, altar and or
gan. "Sitting at the organ was the figure
of a young man. tall, with flaxen hair
that shone like a halo. At the table
we saw another figure, Jthe counterpart
of the one at the organ.
"The old man and I held' each other
tightly by the hand, speechless with
awe, Suddenly from out of the sha
dow there crept a third figure, with a
hawk like face and terrible eyes the
figure of Jasper Sayman.
"He advanced stealthily toward the
table, and, crouching, stretched out his
long arms over the halo like head of
the figure sitting there. His face was
terrible to sse; hate and passion blend
ed in his look. He drew his hand back
again, and shot it forward again and
again. The figure at the table started
as with an electric shock, and rose to
its feet, as Sayman, or his wraith,whl3
pered in its ear, and put a knife In
the phantom hand. The change In the
peaceful face was awful; the deadliest
hate was expressed, as the shadow of
one brother crept to the other at tho
organ, and seemed to bury the knife
in his back. The stricken.oae ap
peared to droop over, .and a broken
wail came from the organ. Then the
figure of Jasper Sayman,which had fol
lowed close behind the shadowy fratrl-
..jj.;,.--
t.-wj
again. With a' look of horror, the
spectral tragedy was finished. The
knife was buried in the other brother's
breast, by his own hand.
"Darkness followed, and a curdling
shriek, at our very ear, intensified the
horrow. We turned to see the real
Jasper Sayman fall dying at our feet
He must have been attracted by the
sound of music, or maybe the haunt
ing remorse of his own crime, and
came only to see the rehearsal of his
own devilish deed of treachery, played
at the command of the God of retribu
tion." "That beats Svengali," gurgled the
soubrette, shivering with the delight
ful awe which a ghost story always in
spires in the young, but the juvenile
shrugged his shoulders in scornful
doubt, as the whole company bundled
on to the puffing train.
Iaextiaaalahable Fire.
An extended account is given in the
Cincinnati Enquirer of John Floyd's
discovery of a peculiar kind of fire, in
extinguishable when once ignited. It
is represented as a substance having
the consistency of paste, and harmless
while in a quiet state; the friction
caused by rubbing it against a hard
substance will, however, set it aglow,
and nothing will overcome the flame,
the latter burning with a blue light
and an intense heat until the com
pound is completely destroyed by
combustion, water having no effect
upon it. Dynamite and-gunpowder re
quire a spark to ignite them, while
powder produces an explosion, but not
a regular fire; but to ignite this com
pound there is just the slightest fric
tion of rubbing it against some ordin
ary substance there is then no explo
sion or rapid speadihg of flames, but
a strange, living fire, incapable of be
ing stamped out or killed in any known
way. The inventor states his unwill
ingness to make the ingredients of this
composition known, on account of
risks to the public by so doing.
Brotherhood of Trinity aad Lighthouse.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth
a religious brotherhood known as "the
"Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and
Undivided Trinity" was directed by an
act of parliament to preserve ancient
sea marks and to erect beacons and
"signs of the sea." For more than a
hundred years this brotherhood kept
up the ancient sea marks, but erected
nothing new; then they began to pur
chase and operate lights owned by pri
vaate individuals or by societies; and
still later they commenced to build
lighthouses and beacons. Finally, in
1S5G, parliament gave Trinity House
the entire control of the lighthouses of
England. "The Lights That Guide in
the Night," by Lieut John M. Elll
cott, U. S. N., in April St Nicholas.
Old Mosaic Pavement.
A mosaic pavement of Palestine, 30
feet long by 15 broad, has been discov
ered at a village between Salt and
Kerak, east of the Jordan. The pave
ment is believed to belong to the fifth
century after Christ. San Francises
Call.
NEW THINGS.
A new design in kettles for cooking
purposes has its interior divided into
several compartments to cook a num
ber of vegetables or meats at the same
time, the different sections being in
closed in one large compartment to
hold water and prevent burning of the
food while cooking.
A newly patented pad for saddles to
prevent horses from having sore backs
consists of a long rubber tube bent in
four or more sections, bound together
at the sides and ends, and provided
with a valve for inflating, the device
being attached to the under side of a
saddle or harness pad.
In a new wagon or engine the wheels
are surrounded by a jointed chain, the
bottom of which is formed of metal
plates and the upper side cf India rub
ber or other elastic material, the chain
running over small pulleys attached to
the carriage, so it can be used as a
track on which the engine runs.
In a recently patented chair for
steamer use two frames are attached
together and fitted with inflated air
bags for use as a raft in case of the ship
sinking, or the air bags can be re
moved from the chair and attached u
the body for use as a life preserver
and can also be used as chair cuaa
ions. Chain gearing is used to drive the
wheels in a recently designed railway
locomotive, a small toothed wheel be
ing connected direct to the piston rod
and a chain running from this wheel to
one of the drive w-heels.whlch is geared
to the next drive wheel by another
chain, the device being patented by a
Missouri man.
A new life boat is provided wlA an
elliptical frame, pointed at the ends,
and secured to the boat by cross-strips,
the body portion of the frame being
composed of cork or inflated rubber
tubes, to steady the boat and increase
its buoyancy, at the same time acting
as a fender when coming in contact
with a wreck or the shore.
A new combination for grocers' use
consists of a funnel with a plug operat
ed by a thumb lever in the outlet for
use in measuring liquids, the funnel
being made in different sizes and also
with a graduated scale on the inside to
that when the desired quantity is ob
tained the plug can be drawn and the
liquid flows out through the ts.be at the
kettosm.
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE
VETERANS.
Gea. Gnat's SccrctlveacM Was Cu4
by the Great BeepeatlMUty He Felt
for the Ualea Cmese Bestead Adepts
..Carrier Pigjeeaa la Military Service.
The Death of Tecai
ORTH at the peal
each charger
sped.
The hard earth
shook beneath
their tread.
The dim woods,, U
around them
spread,
Shone with their
armor's light;
Yet in those stern,
still lines, as-
aas-,:. -
No eye-ball
shrunk, no bosom quailed.
No foot was turned for flight;
But. thundering as their focman came.
Each rifle flashed its deadly flame.
A moment, then recoil and rout,
With reeling horse and struggling
shout.
Confused that onset fair;
But, rallying each dark steed once
more.
Like billows borne the low reefs o er.
With foamy crests in air.
Right on and over them they bore,
With gun and bayonet thrust before,
And swift swords brandished bare.
Then madly was the conflict waged.
Then terribly red Slaughter raged!
How still is yet yon dense morass
The bloody sun below!
Where'er yon chosen horsemen pass
There stirs no bough nor blade of
grass.
There moves no secret foe!...
Sudden from tree and thicket green.
From trunk and mound and bushy
screen.
Sharp lightning flashed with Instant
sheen,
A thousand death-bolts sung!
Like ripened fruit before the blast.
Rider and horse to earth were cast.
Its miry roots among;
Then wild as If that earth were riven.
And, pour'd beneath the cope of heav
en. All hell to upper air were given
One fearful whoop was rung....
Then loud the crash of arms arose.
As when two forest whirlwinds close:
Then filled all heaven their shout and
yell
As if the forests on them fell!
I see. where swells the thickest fight.
With sword and hatchet brandir.h'
bright.
And rifles flashing sulphurous light
Through green leaves gleaming red
I see a plume, now near, now far.
Now high, now low. like falling star
Wide waving o'er the tide of war,
Where'er the onslaught's led....
Above the struggling storm I hear
A lofty voice the war-bands cheer
Still, as they quail with doubt or fear,
Yet loud and louder given
And. rallying to the clarion cry.
With club and red axe raging high.
And sharp knives sheathing low.
JTast back again, confusedly.
They drive the staggering foe.
Gea. Grant's Secretlveaess.
Gen. Horace Porter's "Campaigning
with Grant" takes up the "Dash for
Petersburg" in the "Century." Gen.
Porter says concerning Gen. Grant's,
secretiveness:
After the general had got some miles
out on the march from Cold Harbor, an
oflicer of rank joined him, and as they
rode along, began to explain a plan
which he had sketched providing for the
construction of another lineot intrench
ments some distance in rear of the
lines then held by us, to be used in
case the army should at any time want
to fall back and move toward the
James, and should be attacked while
withdrawing. The general kept on
smoking his cigar, listened to the pro
position for a time, and then quietly
remarked to the astonished officer:
The army has already pulled out from
the enemy's front, and is now on its
march to the James."
This is mentioned as an instance of
how well his secrets could be kept. He
had never been a secretive man until
the positions of responsibility in which
he was placed compelledl him to be
chary in giving expression to his opin
ions and purposes. He then learned
the force of the philosopher's maxim
that "the unspoken word is a sword in
the scabbard, while the spoken word is
a sword in the hand of one's enemy."
In the field there were constant visitors
to the camp, ready to circulate care
lessly any intimations of the command
er's movements, at the risk of having
such valuable information reach the
enemy. Any encouraging expression
given to an applicant for favors was
apt to be tortured into a promise, and
the general naturally became guarded
In his intercourse. When questioned be
yond the bounds of propriety his lips
closed like" a vise, and the obtruding
party was left to supply all the sub
sequent conversation.
These circumstances proclaimed him
a man who studied to be uncommuni
cative, and gave him a reputation for
reserve which could not fairly be at
tributed to him. He was called the
"American Sphinx," "Ulysses the Si
lent," and the "Great Unspeakable,"
and was popularly supposed to move
about with sealed lips. It is true that
he had no "small talk" introduced
merely for the sake of talking, and
many a one will recollect the embar
rassment of a first encounter with him
resulting from this fact; but while,
like Shakspeare's soldier, he never
wore bis dagger in his mouth, yet in
talking to a small circle of friends up
on matters which he had given special
consideration, bis conversation was so
thoughtful, philosophical, and original
that he fascinated all who listened to
him.
Military Carrier Pigeons.
fTom the New York World: Follow
ing in the footsteps of all the other
European governments, England has
arranged for the use of carrier pigeons
In the army. In time of war it is urged
thtat these swift carriers of the air
can be used when railway, telegraph,
messengers and other usual means are
cut off, and pigeon lofts will be estab
lished at suitable places where they
will prove most effective. In the be
ginning England will have but few
birds, hut more will be added as time
and money will permit Germany has
the most complete carrier pigeon serv
ice cf any country in the world. There
Is hardly a town of any importance in
the German empire that has not a pig
con loft, end the German emporer an
nually distributes numerous prizes for
long am! rapid flights. The annual ap
propriation for the pigeons in the army
budget is about 55,000.
Trance has sore birds than Germany
.-.-' -enr- S20.0C0 a year in maiatain-is-
'.h-m. tut they are not so well
d'rri;:tc2. There are scores of -private
loft? in Germany that will be at the
av'cHr9EVla3UB?S
lewJt. -vjJS((Ca75-sfc,wsi
of the government in time of
France learned the value of
during the siege of Paris, when
re used to convey messages to
of government at Tours. Near-
Messages were successfully dis-
during the siege, and since
the value of the pigeons has not
ueetloned. It seems that carrier
are not able to make the speed
popularly supposed. German
say that the average pigeon can
y-flve' miles an hour and not
Babeoa SeMien.
Is not the only animal who car
his warfare by means of organ-
ads and calls in the forces of
to assist him. The Ge'rman nat
and traveler Brehm witnessed
tral Africa fights that were con-
In as orderly a manner as if
had been really men in-
ofjMsly.aojjewhatlike tkesa in
lorm, says tne xoutn s companion.
The actors in the play were baboons
and their enemies were in one case the
traveler's dogs, though the baboons
were ready to fight with any creature
that attacked them, man only excepted,
and he owed bis exemption solely to
the fact that the baboons could not
often gain, a point of vantage.
The naturalist himself was once
stoned out of a pass in a very few min
utes by these creatures, who sprang
upon ledges and stones, looked down
for a few moments on the valley, growl
ing, snarling, and screaming, and then
began to roll down stones with so
much vigor and adoitness that the in
truders took to flight The baboons
evidently knew the value of co-opera
tion, for the naturalists saw two of
them combine their efforts in order to
set a particularly heavy stone rolling.
One monkey, bent on making the most
of his missile, was seen to carry a stone
up a tree that he might hurl it with
greater effect.
Oa the occasion when the dogs at
tacked the baboons the baboons were
crossinga valley, and, as usual during
a march, the females and young were
in the center, the males beading the
column and bringing up the rear. As
the dogs rushed upon them only the
females took to flight.
The males turned and faced the en
emy, growling, beating the ground
with their hands, and opening their
mouths wide so as to show their glitter
ing teeth. They looked so fierce and
malicious that the dogs Arab grey
hounds, accustomed to fight successful-1
ly with hyenas and other beasts of prey
shrank back. By the time they were
encouraged to renew the attack the
whole herd had made its way, covered
by the rear guard, to the rocks, one
6-months-old monkey alone excepted.
This little monkey sat on a rock, sur
rounded by the dogs, but he was not
long left in his perilous position. An
old baboon stepped from a cliff near by,
advanced toward the dogs, keeping
then in check" by threatening gestures!
and sounds, picked up the baby monk
ey and carried it to a place of safety
on the cliff, while the whole crowd of
baboons watched the act of heroism
and shouted their battlecry.
Two of Great's Anecdotes.
In the Century Gen. Horace Porter
gives the following anecdotes that were
related by Grant at the headquarters
mess:
"I was with Gen. Taylor's command
in Mexico when he not only failed to
receive re-enforcements but found that
nearly all his regulars were to be sent
away from him to join Gen. Scott. Tay
lor was apt to be a little absentminded
when absorbed in any perplexing prob
lem, nnd the morning he received the
discouraging news he sat down to
breakfast in a brown study, poured out
a cup of coffee, and, instead of putting
in the sugar, he reached out and got
hold of the mustard pot and stirred
half a dozen spoonfuls of its contents
into the coffee. He didn't realize what
he had done till he took a mouthful,
and then he broke out in a towering
rage.
"We learned something at Shiloh
about the way in which the reports of
losses are sometimes exaggerated in
battle. At the close of the first day's
fight Sherman met a colonel of one of
his regiments with only about 100 of
his soldiers in ranks and said to him:
'Why, where are your men?' The col
onel cast his eyes sadly along the line,
wiped a tear from his cheek and re
plied in a whimpering voice: 'We went
in 800 strong and that's all that's left
of us.' 'You don't tell me!' exclaimed
Sherman, beginning to be deeply af
fected by the fearful result of the car
nage! 'Yes,' said the colonel, 'the
rebs appeared to have a special spite
against us.' Sherman passed along
some hours afterward, when the com
missary was issuing rations, and found
that the colonel's men were returning
on the run from under the bank of the
river, where they had taken shelter
from the firing, and in a few minutes
nearly all of the lost 700 had returned
and were boiling coffee and eating a
hearty meal, with an appetite that
showed they were still very much
alive."
Died with His Chum.
In the reminiscences of Gen. Sir Ev
elyn Wood, himself a brave English
soldier, a touching instance of courage
and self-sacrifice is given, says an ex
change. One June day in 1885 a detach
ment cf English marines was crossing
the Wcronzow road under fire from the
Russian batteries. All of the men
reached shelter in the trenches except
a seaman, John Blewitt. As he was
running a terrific roar was heard. His
mates knew the voice of a huge cannon,
the terror of the army, and yelled:
"Lock out! It is Whistling Dick!"
But at the moment Blewitt was
6truck by the enormous mass of iron
on tlie knees and thrown to the ground.
He called to his secial chum:
"Oh, Welch, save me!"
The fuse was hissing, but Stephen
Welch ran out. of the trenches and,
seizin':; the great shell, tried to roll it
off of his comrade..
It exploded with such terrific fcrce
that not an atom of the 'bodies of Blew
itt or Welch was found. Even in thai
time, when each hour had its excite
ment, this deed of heroism stirred the
whole English array. One of the offi
cers searched out Welch's old mother
in her poor home and undertook her
support while ehe lived, and the story
his death helped his comrades to no
bler conceptions of a soldier's duty.
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DA1KY AND POULTBY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Hew Successful Farmers Operate This
UepartBBeat of the Farm A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
aad reeltry
EW ideas are con
stantly springing
up in dairying, and
this Is also true of
milking, which la
an important
branch of the in
dustry, says a writ
er in Live Stock
Indicator. I have
paid some atten
teatioa to dalry-
-WgT and "find that good mllkh?g
is a very important factor in
successful work. We may have the
best of surroundings, the best of feed,
the best of cows, and give them .the
best of care, and yet if we do not milk
well, the profits will be very considera
bly curtailed. With your permission I
will give my ideas of what constitutes
good milking and a good milker, for
there is more science connected with It
than many suppose. If you have a herd
of twenty cows, for instancee, it is
likely that you do not find any two
of precisely the same disposition, with
the same kind of udder and the same
kind of teats. Some are hard to milk,
others milk very easily, some let the
milk down willingly and rapidly, oth
ers are indifferent and still others are
inclined to refuse entirely. The good
milker must be able to adapt himself
to every one of these natural condi
tions of the cow. Assuming that the
hour for milking has come, each milker
should milk the same cows at the same
time of day, and milk them in the
same order. He should have a good
substantial stool, and not merely a
piece of board on the top of a stick of
stove wood, for with this make-shift
neither the milker nor the milk ' is
safe. Let the cow know that she is to
be milked by a gentle word or two, such
as "So, boss." Sit down quietly by
her side, have a damp cloth and wipe
off the udder and all parts liable to har
bor anything offensive to the milk. I
do not like the idea advocated by some
dairymen of washing off a number of
cows' udder without milking them im
mediately. With easy milkers it is
always sure to cause a leakage and this
is then likely to become a habit, and
no one can tell where It will end. Af
ter the udder is cleansed, and the good
will of the cow gained, press a few
drops from each teat separately and
moisten or gently rub the teat with the
finger of the other hand. Thhvwill aid
greatly in drawing the milk, especially
with a hard milking cow. While going
through with this prooeas, the pail
-sllUald'HUuiO tn-aae "de. IK no -wet.
the teat with milk. Take hold of it
with the whole hand if possible, but
when it is too short use as many fin
gers as you can. Never milk with the
finger and thumb if it can possibly be
avoided. Milk the two front teats first,
as they can be milked evenly. It is
claimed by some that if the front quar
ters give less milk than the hind quar
ters the front can be brought up to the
hind ones by milking one of each to
gether. I think, however, that the re
verse of this is true. Let the milker
raise the hand high enough to fill the
teat with milk, hold it with the fore
finger and thumb, press firmly on the
teat with the other fingers in their or
der, and be sure to have the finger
nails short Let the milk be drawn
as quickly as possible for if not a loss
will follow, and always be sure to get
the last drop.. Keep all sores from the
teat by judicious treatment Prevent
any excitement of any kind, unduly
loud talking, unnecessary changes of
position or anything unusual that may
distract the cow. Let everything be
done quietly and In 'order. I believe
in stabling the cows to milk them, and
In darkening the stable, and if need be
covering the cows with a light cover
ing to keep the flies off. And Anally,
treat "boss" as an esteemed and val
ued friend.
Mrs. Kabelac oa Fowl Laagaage.
Man with all his superior intelligence
and inventive genius must now take
a back seat in the matter of language
to the common barnyard fowl of the
world, say3 Southern Fancier. For
centuries this noble lord of creation
has tried to found a universal lan
guage without success, the nearest ap
proach being Volapuk, the invention
of that accomplished linguistic student.
Rev. Dr. Johan Schleyer, of Baden,
Germany. Fowls have long since mas
tered the knotty subject for as Mrs.
Kabelac boldly asserts they possess a
general language. Says she: "Take
a fowl from Japan and one from Eng
land, and then one from France, one
from America. Set all these, suppos
ing them to be hens. When the chicks
hatch you will hear them calling to
the Tlnles in the self-same notes, the
same punctuation, well, the same
words. Throw some egg crumbs down
when these chicks are twenty-four
hours old, you will hear a simultane
ously and exactly similar call from all
four hens to their chicks. It is an
other cry, another punctuation, an
other series of notes, another sen
tence which they will pronounce. If
they have not been fed on too much
egg they will accentuate the call in an
excited shrill way. This evidently
means that the food is extraordinarily
nice, for the chicks rush in a great,
hurry when they hear this peculiar
call, even if fed a few minutes before.
A hawk sails over, the four hens utter
an exactly similar note, supposing they
have all seen it, if not one takes the
alarm for the other. What is the re
sult? The chicks fully comprehending
this peculiar cry, never heard at other
times, but only evoked by the presence
of a hapwk, rush away from their
mother, hiding under brush or in
some place where the hawk cannot !
catch them in its swoop. Should the
bawk succeed in carrying one of them I
off you will hear a most despairing !
scream, perfectly unique, from the
mother of the victim. The other un
bereaved mothers do not utter -the
same cry. Unless a chicken is carried
off you will not hear this cry. Is not
this language? The same sound, oc
casionally differently accented to de
note intensity or the reverse, always
used to convey tne same idea by differ
ent individuals and understood by all."
Abolish the Feed-Trough. -The feed-!
"Mm
trough, or, rather, the feed hopper, that
is kept full of food, Is the lazy man's
method of feeding, and it is not only
expensive, because it induces the hens
to eat at all hours of the day. but it
causes them to fatten and become sub
ject to disease, thus diminishing the
supply of eggs. When feeding the hens
with grain, let it be scattered wide,
which not only prevents he greedy
hens from securing more than their
share, but compels all to hunt for it,
thereby taking exercise and remaining
in better condition for laying. Ex.
What Alto the Hea?
This is a question that is often asked,
anl I am sure can not always be cor
rectly answered. For instance this
last week I had a hen that was sick.
The symptoms were these. She was
much inclined to stay on the roost and
refuse food. The feathers on her head
would stand up almost straight, giving
the idea that the fowl was being sub
jM tssosae sisarprtlirlUiag pa .Her
eyes also seemed to indicate internal
pain. But her comb was red, and she
showed no sign of indigestion. When
out of doors she would stand nearly
straight. Altogether her look was that
of a healthy but uncomfortable hen.
Now what would our doctors have de
clared to be the matter with the fowl?
I said Indigestion constipation. But
I was wrong. I killed the -hen and
dressed her. Then the mystery was
uncovered. I found two lumps of hard
material; they proved to be cysts that
bad formed over two sharp wires that
had been eaten by the hen at some time,
evidently far in the past. One of these
cysts was in the external portion of
the gizzard, out of which the wire had
worked. The gizzard had grown up
under the wire, and the latter was
pushing its way through the flesh of the
hen. The sharp point of the wire on
the outside of the gizzard was not
covered by the cyst, but was left bare
to act as a probe in cutting away a pas
sage for itself. The cyBt was formed
around and behind the wire. It was
one of those admirable provisions of
nature for the casting off of undesir
able foreign matter. Another wire and
cyst were found just under th breast
bone, just under the skin, and there is
no doubt that in a little while it would
have been able to get through and out.
The cyst was nearly half an inch In
diameter.
The moral is that we should be care
ful that our fowls can not get at such
things as sharp nails, wire, pins or
tacks. I am glad I killed the fowl, and
I am sure that no fowl doctor could
have diagnosed the trouble.
Mary Ann.
Why So Many Breeds.
Geo. Entry, In Poultry Advocate,
says: That there are a great many
breeds, which, with their numerous
subdivisions, make quite a formidable
array, especially in the eyes of one
first attending a poultry show, is cer
tainly an undisputed fact. It is at
-tfmoa n.,poratoxlng.mattfiufogthft .he-.
ginner to make a choice among so
many. And yet I believe that it is
one of the good things in our poultry
culture, for with such an array of
fowls a kind may be selected possess
ing just the qualities desired. For ex
ample, A lives in a large city and has
a couple of hundred feet of back yard.
It is of no use as a garden, being too
much shaded by surrounding buildings.
He concludes to utilize it as a run for
a dozen hens. Now he can not suc
cessfully raise any chicks; therefore
tho hatching propensity would be a
decided nuisance in his hens. Fortun
ately he can get fowls which will fur
nish him a bountiful supply of eggs
without attempting to hatch. He can
get them of almost any color and
markings he may fancy. B lives on a
country place and can raise chicks. He
may select a fowl which will not only
lay well, but will hatch and rear chicks
as well. He may wish to sell young
chicks in the early spring and summer
months and grown cockerels in au
tumn and winter. He can be suited to
a nicety. There are the Dominiques,
Javas, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottcs.
etc., to select from. And so I might
go on through all the different places
where and purposes for which fowls
are kept No. there are not too many
breeds and varieties of domestic fowls.
Itutter at a Los4.
Think of a man making butter that
costs him 12 to 14 cents per pound and
swapping it at 8 and 10 cents per
pound for groceries at the country
store. Think of him selling cream to
the creamery, and never stopping to
think, study or read an hour in a
month as to the kind of cows he ought
to have for the business, or the proper
way to care for them in order to get
the most cream. Think of a man
blindly plunging along in these old
ruts of farm practice for years, never
caring to read what other men are
doing who are successful and making
money in the dairy business. Think of
a man doing all these things, as thous
ands are doing, and not caring enough
for his own profit to invest 100 cents a
year in a dairy paper that is wide
awake to his best interests all the
time, and worth every week ten times
its cost H. C. Carpenter, before Min
nesota Dairy Association.
A Hog Cholera Outbreak. A recent
outbreak of hog cholera near the Twin
Cities, when there were no diseased
herds' known to be within a hundred
miles or more, may prove a valuable
lesson if properly understood and util
ized. The outbreak referred to was in
a herd that was in fine condition: it
was housed, fed and cared for in every
way in a first-class manner, and the
health of the animals was excellent In
a manner that we have not space to de
tail it was learned that the disease
was communicated to the herd by a
man who came to the place from a dis
tant infected district, who had been
among diseased hogs, and without
change of clothes or other precautions
went among this healthy herd and left
the germs of disease there that will
probably destroy it. There Is no ques
tion about real hog cholera being in
fectious, and that it may be easily and
unsuspectingly transmitted, as in this
case. The mora! of this is: Allow no
stranger to visit the pens of healthy
hogs; or still better, do not let him
come on the place unless he can give
ample assurance that he could not by
any possibility have been in contact
with cholera hogs. Hogs must be pro
tected from this contagion as the mem
bers of the family would be protected
from smallpox. Up to date this is' all
that can be done to' stay the dread
plague, and therefore every persible
precaution against its spread should be
taken. Farm, Stock and Home.
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